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I Could Never Foster… I’d Keep Them All.
A sample size of one perspective into foster “failures,” capacity limits, and the complicated animals who sometimes need to stay. If I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me, I could probably fund my own micro-rescue. “I could never foster. I’d get too attached.”“I’d keep them all.”“I don’t know how you…
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When “Doing Good” Is Used to Excuse Harm: A Hard Conversation the Rescue Community Needs to Have
Animal rescue is built on compassion. We show up for the voiceless, the discarded, and the vulnerable—often at great personal cost. But somewhere along the way, many organizations have absorbed a dangerous tolerance for a myth: If someone does good work for animals, their bad behavior toward people should be tolerated. This myth is quietly…
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When Passion Turns Inward: Confronting Toxicity Within the Animal Rescue World
This message is intended for the people inside rescue—the ones who live this work daily, who understand its weight, and who know how painful it is when harm comes not from the outside world, but from within our own community. It isn’t easy to talk about, but it’s necessary. Yes, Toxicity Exists Inside Rescue Not…
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When Fostering Meets Reality: Remembering Our Resident Pets Matter Too
Fostering animals is one of the most rewarding things many of us will ever do. It’s an act of love, of compassion, and of wanting to make the world a little better for the souls who’ve been dealt a difficult hand. Most fosters have big hearts—we say “yes” because we want to help. We say…
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Le Funk or Le Skunk?
Throughout fostering life it isn’t uncommon for one to experience a “funk” as I like to call it. We all have our highs, our lows, and those days where you aren’t ever really sure that you will get out of the hydroplaning experience of just steadily passing each fostering minute of each fostering hour of…
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Start a blog they said, oh my dog…
And yes, he was one of my foster dogs. ↑ Say hello to Peter Barker, formerly Clark. He is as intelligent, sweet and handsome as they can get. Whelp……here I am! And now that I am here, holy dog was that a lot of work just to get myself set up but we are here…
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